Note 3 — Chapter XXI · MUNSTER AND CONNAUGHT, 1641-1642
Reading edition
Bellings, i. 76; St. Leger’s letters of February 26, March 26, and April 18, 1641-2, in Lismore Papers, 2nd Series. Divers Remarkable Occurrences by Thomas Baron, Esq., who lived fifteen years six miles from Bandon and arrived in London July 2. This last contains a curious dirge on Captain Sougane, beginning, ‘O’Finnen McDonnell McFinnen a Cree’ which has these lines:—
Thy general Barry of three pounds a day, With armed Lord Muskerry did both run away. We Cork men bewail dee, but yet for dy glory Tank heaven to have pulled de from purgatory, For all our priests swear dou art not in hell, Dear Finnen McDonnell McFinnen farewell.